Texas Rangers reclaim island in the Rio Grande from armed Mexican drug cartels – first bloodless armed fighting for American territory used for human trafficking?
Note Texas Rangers not the US Army were used to claim territory
From here:
“In the early dawn's orange glow, a Texas Rangers commander briefs a heavily armed invasion force.
They're preparing to seize a remote, 170-acre Mexican cartel-controlled island in the middle of the Rio Grande River overlooked by sniper nests and potentially booby-trapped.
Some of the dozens of assembled men shift from one foot to another or reposition their M-4 rifles as they listen to their commanders' instructions.”
Quite the dramatization!
“In the early dawn's orange glow, a Texas Rangers commander briefs a heavily armed invasion force.
They're preparing to seize a remote, 170-acre Mexican cartel-controlled island in the middle of the Rio Grande River overlooked by sniper nests and potentially booby-trapped.
Some of the dozens of assembled men shift from one foot to another or reposition their M-4 rifles as they listen to their commanders' instructions.”
“For decades, neither the U.S. nor Mexico claimed Fronton Island as their own and that ambiguity provided the cartels – specifically the Gulf Cartel and Cartel del Noreste (CDN) – with an opportunity.
When the cartel members are not killing each other, they use the island as a safe haven when fleeing the Mexican military or American law enforcement.
The lawlessness has transformed the region into a major drug trafficking corridor.”
5 million? Closer to 8 million, but who’s counting? Only those who can no longer receive the services their taxes pay for, because the resources have been prioritized to illegal invading immigrants, right?
“As federal Border Patrol agents have been overwhelmed by the mass migration and pulled away from the front lines to process illegal crossers, criminal Mexican gangs have gone largely unchecked and are now operating with near impunity inside America.”
So, how many armed bases inside the US are the Mexican drug cartels operating as they traffic millions of indentured gang members with the full co-operation of the Biden administration?
So, what happened to the fight over the island?
Well, nothing. No shots fired.
“At least today no one shot at the Texas troopers, but that's no guarantee they won't find themselves under attack in the future.”
“These vanguards will secure the island to allow for Texas National Guard engineers to safely bring in bulldozers and heavy machinery to completely denude the landscape of trees and brush before they fortify it with concertina wire.”
Onwards!
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Much more impressed with Hamas! Go Iran.
Wow. Cool! God, I wish I weren’t old and could volunteer. On the border, in Israel... anywhere.